>>14268888USAJFKSWCS Needs New Nerds: Dungeons and Dragons, SCI-FI/Fantasy Writers, and an Unconventional Way to Consider Irregular Warfare Training
>"Welcome to Pineland: Chaos, Conflict, & InstabilityFor the uninitiated, the location providing the backdrop for the Special Forces (SF), Civil Affairs (CA), and Psychological Operations (PSYOP)
students is a country called Pineland...
...Ideally, training in Pineland should provide an assessment of the expected skills SF, CA, and PSYOP students possess once they arrive at their operational units and should establish a baseline for subsequent training efforts, regardless of ARSOF branch.
>Unfortunately, Pineland (not the established training infrastructure) as a scenario is not up to the 21st century task of validating and training our SOF Soldiers for ill-structured problems faced in Irregular Warfare (IW) settings.
>Pineland needs a reimagining
The chance of Special Operators being in an environment anathema to our own should be the expectation. We need to look at providing a cultural experience forcing students into intense ambiguity and struggle. They are not going to be encountering Western style people. Most likely it will be a group of people they will have trouble understanding. ...
▪How can you test influence and information activities in a training environment and the constructed world?
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This is extremely interesting.
By chance...are any of those butterfly wing brushes yours this time? 